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Rigby's mother will never forgive

The family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, wife Rebecca Rigby (centre), lay tributes at the scene of his death one year after he was brutally killed by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich, south-east London, on May 2

Lee Rigby was murdered in Woolwich one year ago

The family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, wife Rebecca Rigby (centre) and mother Lyn Rigby (right), lay tributes at the scene of his death one year after he was brutally killed by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich

The family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, wife Rebecca Rigby (centre) and mother Lyn Rigby(right), lay tributes at the scene of his death one year after he was brutally killed by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich,

The mother of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has said she will never forgive the two Islamist fanatics who killed him.

Fusilier Rigby's murder sparked shock across the country after he was run over with a car and then hacked to death by British Muslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich, south-east London, on May 22 last year.

Speaking a year after her 25-year-old son's death, Lyn Rigby told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "I will never forgive them for what they did to Lee. Never."

She sent a touching message, called "Once a Fusilier, Always a Fusilier" to be read at a memorial event for her son, held today outside Woolwich Barracks where he was stationed. His family are expected to hold their own private remembrance.

Mrs Rigby described the heart-breaking anguish of dealing with the death of her son.

She told the Sun newspaper: "No parent should ever have to bury a child but the nature of Lee's death was so violent that I can barely sleep at night, haunted by the images of my child lying bloodied and fatally wounded on the street.

"If I close my eyes I see Lee covered in blood. And when I do fall asleep I have nightmares in which I am running to try and save my son.

"I wake up in cold sweats with my heart thumping and I feel like I am going to die."

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a permanent memorial to the soldier in Woolwich, but this has been rejected by the local council and MP Nick Raynsford.

But Mrs Rigby told the Sun: "By refusing to honour his memory in a dignified fashion, they are creating a platform for further political hatred and unrest.

"Lee was a peaceful boy and we will never let his name be tarnished."

Lorna Taylor, whose son served with Fusilier Rigby in Afghanistan and who organised the petition, said: " Lee Rigby was a royal soldier killed in a royal borough and so why wouldn't you want to honour somebody who fought for your country with a memorial here where he was killed?

"Thousands of people have signed petitions calling for a memorial here so the council, Army and the Government need to stand up and support one of their own.

"As a mother of a soldier I am very passionate about supporting this campaign."

Mr Raynsford insisted there are already appropriate memorials to the young soldier.

He said: "The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers have installed a memorial bench in the cemetery in Lancashire where he is buried and his name will also be inscribed on the Army memorial at the national arboretum, so it's right that there should be memorials.

"Having a separate memorial at Woolwich raises difficult issues, in fact, it is very unusual for soldiers to be remembered where they fell. Their memorial is usually either in a military cemetery or in a regimental memorial, as is the case with Lee Rigby.

"A memorial outside the barracks might also attract the interest of extremists who might seek to build conflict between communities in the way that Lee Rigby's killers wanted to do."

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett , one of three women dubbed the "Angels of Woolwich" for the courage they showed on the day, was among those who returned to the scene today to pay her respects.

A year ago today she was checking Fusilier Rigby's pulse and confronting one of his crazed killers, Adebowale.

She said: "It has been a waste of three lives and of course a year on I still think about Lee Rigby's mother losing a son, it's a tragedy. I don't have flashbacks but I have been very emotional lately.

"This street looks like a normal street now but I can still see the body, see the crashed car and see the bloodied hands."

Comments (2)

She spent nine months after conceiving him, carrying him inside her, the most intimate relationship anyone can ever hope to have, then saw him grow to adulthood, as she fed and clothed him, along with his father, only for two ignorant savages, carrying out a ridiculous mandate gained from a course of religious indoctrination, to rob her of the rest of his life.

Bad enough he may have been killed in action, but being murdered in a London street, for no other reason than he was a committed member of the military, no, I suspect if it was not for the Christian...'turn the other cheek'... mantra, that millions have been compelled to tolerate, there would be a darned sight more than just his mother refusing to forgive.

Why should she forgive the people who stole her son from her.
She spent nine months after conceiving him, carrying him inside her, the most intimate relationship anyone can ever hope to have, then saw him grow to adulthood, as she fed and clothed him, along with his father, only for two ignorant savages, carrying out a ridiculous mandate gained from a course of religious indoctrination, to rob her of the rest of his life.
Bad enough he may have been killed in action, but being murdered in a London street, for no other reason than he was a committed member of the military, no, I suspect if it was not for the Christian...'turn the other cheek'... mantra, that millions have been compelled to tolerate, there would be a darned sight more than just his mother refusing to forgive.varteg1

I still believe that the Death penalty should be brought back, these two will haunt Lees family for years to come in the Media, Hindly & Brady, a prime example of the media regurgitating their heinous crimes with programs on a regular basis depicting how and why they committed murder....

I still believe that the Death penalty should be brought back, these two will haunt Lees family for years to come in the Media, Hindly & Brady, a prime example of the media regurgitating their heinous crimes with programs on a regular basis depicting how and why they committed murder....welshmen

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